Disazo pyrazolone coloring matters which contain alpha 1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene nucleus



Patented Mar. 26, 1929.

UNITED STA TES LEON W. GELLER, Oll HAMBURG, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR '10 NATIONAL ANILINE & CHEMICAL CO., INC., 01 NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISAZO PYRAZOLONE COLORING MATTERS WHICE OONTAIN THALENE NUCLEUS.

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A LE-DIEYDROXYNALPH- Application fled December 23, 1925. Serial 1T0. 77,376.

This invention relates to the manufacture and production of disazo coloring matters of the pyrazolone series which are capable of being chromed and are of value in dyeing wool and other material, and for the production of useful lakes and pigments. The product Obtained by treating material, as by dyeing, printing or painting, with one or more of the compounds, or with a lake or pigment thereof, also constitutes a part of the present invention.

acid-group, e. g., a carboxyl or a sulfonicgroup, more especially the' latter, as a substitue'nt in one or both of said nuclei. p

The new disazo compounds correspond with the formula R N=N-RN=N-R wherein R signifies a 1-aryl-5-p rajzolone residue, more particularly of the benzene series, and which may contain substituents in the aryl nucleus, 'R a benzene nucleus which may contain substituents, and R".a 1.5-dihydroxy-naphthalene residue which is free from other substituents.

It is preferable that the two az'o bridges be in para-position to' one another in their attachment to the center component, R. ,The

new components'in the dry and pulverized state constitute yellow to red to brownish: black powders soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid with intense colorations. Upon reduction,

for example with stannous chloride and hydrochloric acid, they ield an amlnopyrazolone body, a diamino ody of the benzene series, and amino-1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene. Those containing an acid radical, i. e., CO OH, SO H,etc., in the form of their sodium salts are soluble in water with an intense coloration, and dye wool in Example: 13.8 parts of para-nitraniline are diazotized in the usual manner by means of 7 parts of sodium nitrite, 40 parts of 20 B. hydrochloric acid, 100 parts water and sufficient ice to keep the temperature at about 0-10 C. The diazo solution thus obtained is introduced into a well stirred solution of 27.6 parts of the sodium salt of 1-(4-s'ulfophenyl)-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone dissolved in 100 parts of water containing sufficient sodium carbonate to maintain analkaline reaction throughout the, combination, the temperature being kept at about 010 C. When the combination is complete, the solution isacidified b means of hydrochloric acid and the precipltated monazo dyestuft' filtered oil? 7 and washed. It is then suspended in about 500 parts water, neutralized by the addition of sodium carbonate, heated to 5060 (1., and a ten per cent solution of sodium disulfide is slowly added, with stirring, until an excess of thesulfide is present. The nitro group is thus reduced to an amino group.

The solution is cooled, acidified with hydrd chloric acid, filtered, the precipitate re-dissolved in 250 parts water containin about 15430 parts of sodium carbonate, and the solution filtered from any precipitated sulfur which may be present. The filtrate, after acidification with hydrochloric acid, is then diazotized in the usual manner at a temperature of about 5 C. by means of the nec- .The dyestufl thus obtained is the sodium essary amount of sodium nitrite solution, and

the diazo solution thus obtained introduced into a solution containing parts of 1.5- dihydroxynaphthalene and 12 parts of caustic soda dissolved in about 100 parts water.

v When the coupling is complete, the'disazo dyestufi is precipitated by the addition of common salt, filtered ofl and dried.

It is a brownish-black to black powder, soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid, soluble in water giving a reddish-black solution, and dyes wool in an acid bath maroon shades which on after-chroming change to brown p where in R signifies" a l-aryl-fi-pyrazolone tints fast to light, fulling and washing.

In the above example, an equivalent amount of para-aminoacetanilide may be used in place of the para-nitraniline, the acetyl group in the monazo dyestufl? thus obtained being subsequently replaced by hydrogen by saponifica tion before diazotization, and the (llflZOtlZBd amino-monazo body combined with -1.5'-dihydroxynaphthalene. The same dyestuif may be obtained by coupling diazotized paranitraniline or para-aminoacetanilide under suitable conditions into 1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene, and, after reducing the nitro group to an amino group or'replacing the acetyl group by hydrogen, asthe case may be, diazotizing t e amino-monazo dyestufi thus obtained and combining it with the pyrazolone.

In a similar manner, other analogous disazo compounds may be obtained by em-- ploying other pyrazolones and other nitranilines or other monoacetyl-diamines of the benzene series, their isomers, homologues, or substitution products.

In the specification and claims, it will be under stood that the pyrazolones contemplated in the present invention carry a methyl or a carboxyl group in the 3-position in the pyrazolone nucleus unless otherwise specified,

and are capable of combining in the 4-position with diazo compounds.

I claim: 1. As new products, the disazo coloring matters which correspond with the probable formula RN=NR'N=NR" wherein R signifies a nucleus of a l-ar l-5- pyrazolone body, R a nucleus of an aryl ody of the benzene series, and R a 1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene residue. 1

salt of an acid having the probable formula:

"N===c-oH:

oo- H-N-N N-N-R Boss 7 wherein R signifies a 1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene nucleus free from other substituents and more particularly, the probable formula:

2. As new products, the disazo coloring matters which correspond with the probable nucleus of the benzene series in which the benzene nucleus may contain substituents, R represents a benzene nucleus which may carry su stituents, and R" 'a 1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene residue.

3. As new products, the disazo coloring matters which correspond with the probable formula wherein R signifies a 1-aryl-5-pyrazolone nucleus of the'benzene series which may contain substituents in the benzene nucleus, R a benzene nucleus which may carry substituents, K

R a l.5-dihydroxynaphthalene residue; and wherein the azo groups occupy a para-position with reference to one another.

4. As new products, the disazo coloring matters which correspond with the probable formula R N=NR' N.=NR"

wherein R signifies a 1-aryl-5-pyrazolone nucleus of the benzene series, R a benzene nucleus, R a 1.5-dihydroxynaphthalene residue; and wherein at least one of said benzene nuclei carries an acid-group as a substituent. 5. As new products, the disazo c'oloring matters which correspond with the probable formula RN=N+R' N NR" wherein R signifies a 1-aryl-5-pyrazolone nucleus of the benzene series, B a benzene nu- I cleus, R" a 1.-dihydroxynaphthalene nucleus; and wherein at least one of said benzene nuclei carries a sulfonic group as a substituent. v

7. As a new product, the disazo coloring matter which in the free state corresponds with the probable formula wherein R signifies a 1.5-dihydroxynaphthawith a coloring matter claim 3.

11. -Material dyed with a coloring matter.

of'claim 41.

12. Material dyed with a coloring matter of claim 5.

13. Material dyed with a coloring matter of claim 6. i a

14. Material dyed with the coloring matter of claim 7. i

15. As new products, the disazo coloring matters which correspond with the probable formula R-N N=C R' col11N==NR'-N=N wherein R denotes an aryl group which may 

